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Meaning of "motet"
Motet is a noun that refers to a type of musical composition, often vocal and polyphonic, that is typically religious in nature
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- A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem.
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It is commonly accepted that this is a funeral motet.
Jacopo wrote one motet which has survived.
That was the case with this motet.
The motet is often performed on anniversaries of church dedication.
I think there is a song or motet text here.
It is the only known motet composed for performance on an elephant.
It involved setting a chorale melody and text as a motet.
Then we sing a motet of some sort.
The texts of antiphons were frequently used as motet texts.
The motet was performed in the same year in the abbey.
There has been significant debate as to the dating of this motet.
Spem in alium is a motet for eight choirs of five voices.
He was one of the pioneers of the style of the concertato motet.
The motet ends in pianissimo by the tenor voice on a pedal point.
Grocheio was also one of the first scholars to define a motet.
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Machaut helped develop the motet and secular song forms.
It was later replaced by the motet.
The structure of this motet was strongly influenced by the structure of the dome.
He also published more conventional madrigal and motet collections.
The motet would become the most popular form of medieval polyphony.
He was not twelve years old when he composed a motet with orchestra.
The present motet is essentially a call for all others to rejoice with musical instruments.
In the opening chorus the instruments go with the voices as in a motet.
The chorus enters independently in polyphonic motet style over this rich orchestral texture.
It adopts a motet technique of having the instrumental and vocal lines follow each other closely.
Is regarded as a motet.
Bruckner composed the motet during his stay in Kronstorf.
The predominant forms of church music during the period were the mass and the motet.
The music for this early cantata uses motet style in the choral movements.
The motet was one of the preeminent forms of Renaissance music.
The longest is the motet Letetur plebs.
The motet is marked Allegro moderato and begins calmly in homophony.
One of his surviving works is the motet Circumdederunt me.
Opus V for two violin choirs has to be considered as an excellent instrumental motet.
He composed the motet for the feast of the Visitation.
Max Auer regards it as the most accomplished and magnificent a cappella motet of the composer.
Contains the motet Mater floreat florescat.
Here is the text of his motet Ave Maria.
It was the first motet that Bruckner composed in Vienna.
Georg Schumann composed a chorale motet.
The motet circulated widely in Europe.
A religious choral composition in English the Protestant equivalent of the motet.
Mozart the motet Exsultate jubilate and the Et incarnatus.
The collection contains earlier and new works and a German arrangement of a motet by Andrea Gabrieli.
The motet Osculetur me uses low voice tessituras reminiscent of Ockeghem.
Jean Philippe Rameau set the psalm for the motet Deus noster refugium.
Polyphony motet in a Central European tradition.
Charpentier 's contribution to the motet is considerable.
Motet nach Barabbas.
In modern times, the motet is usually sung by a female soprano.
